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The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancourt, declared that she was “horrified by the depravity” of the military attacks in Gaza ordered by Israel against displaced Palestinian people who seek help because – among other shortcomings – they do not have anything to eat. .
By using the term depravity, the international official refers to an inferior moral condition on the part of those who do not allow or deny that humanitarian aid reaches children, women and men, as is what happens with the Palestinian people.
In this regard, Paula Gaviria Betancur asserted that Israel has obstructed and used armed intervention in humanitarian aid in contravention of the binding order of the International Court of Justice to take immediate and necessary measures to allow the delivery of basic services and humanitarian aid to Gaza and prevent the genocide commission.
However, Israel did not take into account the resolution of the international justice body and at the same time mounted a campaign to discredit and financially suffocate the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), “the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza.” “, highlighted Gaviria Betancourt.
Israel also continued to attack aid convoys, health facilities and assaulted aid seekers themselves, he said, noting that hundreds were reportedly “massacred and wounded” during attacks on civilians queuing for food aid on 29 February and March 1.
“I am horrified by the depravity of killing civilians when they are at their most vulnerable and seeking basic assistance. “These constitute heinous crimes of the highest level,” he stated.
In January 2024, eight UN rapporteurs accused Israel of “destroying Gaza’s food system and using food as a weapon against the Palestinian population.”
Galy Chavez